New Universal Photo App: Photo Fixer
Tuesday, October 19, 2010 at 2:00PM | Glyn Evans 
App Store Description: Photo Fixer is an exciting new image processing application for the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad that allows you to easily remove unwanted items from your photos! Unlike some other apps which simply crop out an entire slice of the photo, Photo Fixer uses advanced algorithms to actually fill in the background with appropriate textures for that area. Photo Fixer has brought the magic of content aware fill to the iPhone! Check out the sample images below to see the power of Photo Fixer!
Usage
Photo Fixer is simple and fun to use. Simply start the app and touch the 'load' button to load a picture from your library. Second, zoom, pan and select the item which you want to remove. Third, touch the 'erase' button and review your results. If you wish to save the image, simply tap the 'save' button. Photo Fixer always creates a new file and never overwrites your original.
Hints
Photo Fixer works best removing items that are on top of some sort of texture like grass, wood, leaves, or water. Removing items on top of a very complicated background is possible, but needs to be done piecewise.
The larger the item you select, the longer it will take to process. Try working with smaller selections for better performance.
App Store Link: Photo Fixer; Price: £1.19/$1.99/€1.59
Editors comments: I've not tried this app, as I already use TouchRetouch, which does a really good job of removing unwanted objects from your iPhone photos.
Photo Fixer in Universal App
Reader Comments (3)
I've been having problems getting this one to work as well as TouchRetouch. It seems to be less "forgiving".
=M=
@Marty. I've not tried this app, as I have been happy with TouchRetouch, which I have found works reasonably well for removing basic objects from my photos.
I'm having the same experience as =M= It doesn't seem to work as well as TouchReTouch. The "advanced algorithms" apparently aren't very advanced !! In my test, it chose the entirely wrong content to use as fill-in for the area I was removing.